Bug 2517086 (CVE-2026-74475) - CVE-2026-74475 kernel: vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()
Summary: CVE-2026-74475 kernel: vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74475
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-08-15 12:49 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 13:21 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 12:49:31 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()

The neighbour hardware address n->ha can be updated asynchronously by the
neighbour subsystem, protected by n->ha_lock seqlock. Reading n->ha without
holding the seqlock loop can lead to torn reads or reading a partially updated
MAC address.

Use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit() to safely copy n->ha under
read_seqbegin()/read_seqretry() lock protection before using it.

Note that arp_reduce() and neigh_reduce() seem to have the same issue
left for future patches.


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